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nomadologist
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No, it is not an equivalent, because in a country (US) where millions upon millions of people from the south to the midwest to the northwest to the southwest etc, live in non-urban areas, the word 'white trash' can mean almost anything, depending on where you are and who's using it. To the city person, farmers may look like 'white trash'; to the farmers, poorer town kids can be called 'white trash'; to the rural citizen, badly behaved suburban white kids imitating bling culture can be called 'white trash'; and on and on and on ... there's a whole slew of regional terms for subdividing - rednecks, hoods, hoosiers, townies, hicks, and on and on and on - 'white trash' is just a stupid, noxious generalization/insult/cliche available to pretty much anyone to describe very, very different groups of styles, behaviors, local cultures ... there is no definitive content or stylistic signifiers ... nomad mentioned metal and 80s rock, but rural lower classes listen to country, classic rock, and hip-hop too, you just can't generalize ... my impression is that "chav" is much more specific than what I am describing above.
i guess this is all true...there are regionally specific ideas of what "white trash" means